In 2012, Unger won the Democratic Primary with 65.2% of the vote against Katie Riley.[6] He won the November 6 General election with 11,312 votes (53.5%) against Republican nominee Katie Eyre.[7] Unger was endorsed by a local newspaper, the Forest Grove News Times, and many other groups such as the Oregon Council of Police Associations, the Oregon State Council of Retired Citizens, and the Oregon League of Conservation Voters.[8] During his run against Eyre, he was portrayed as a carpetbagger for moving back to the district from Portland to run for the seat.[9] The Forest Grove News Times ran an article pointing out inaccuracies in those attacks, and referenced them as one of the reasons they chose to endorse Unger.[10][11] Unger, who grew up on his families' Century Farm, emphasized supporting local schools in his campaign.[12][13] In 2014, he announced he would not run for re-election, and in June 2014 became the executive director of Our Oregon.[14] Unger was succeeded by former Metro councilor Susan McLain, also a Democrat.[15]

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president

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University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institutions 295-acre campus is along the Willamette River, since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university has a Carnegie Classification of highest research activity and has 21 research centers, UO was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1969. UO offers 316 undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Additionally, the Graduate School oversees the universitys graduate and certificate programs, UO student-athletes compete as the Ducks and are part of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their team and track. The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12,1872, the residents of Eugene struggled to help finance the institution, holding numerous fundraising events such as strawberry festivals, church socials, and produce sales. They raised $27,500, enough to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $2,500, the doors officially opened in 1876 with the name of Oregon State University and Deady Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members, the first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was closed, it was $8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $7,000 to help pay for the debt. In 1913, and again in 1932, there were proposals to merge the university with what is now Oregon State University, during Prince Lucien Campbells tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency, however, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College merge, the bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland, however, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities, with contributions exceeding $100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey, the goal was exceeded by over $253 million. The University occupies over 80 buildings and these projects, among others, were commissioned in part to support current student enrollment as well as possible future increases. Effective July 1,2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon

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Salem, Oregon
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Salem /ˈseɪləm/ is the capital of the U. S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, the river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, Salem had a population of 154,637 at the 2010 census, making it the third largest city in the state after Portland and Eugene. Salem is less than a driving distance away from Portland. Salem is the city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. A2013 estimate placed the population at 400,408. The city is home to Willamette University, Corban University, the State of Oregon is the largest public employer in the city, and Salem Health is the largest private employer. Transportation includes public transit from Salem-Keizer Transit, Amtrak service, major roads include Interstate 5, Oregon Route 99E, and Oregon Route 22, which connects West Salem across the Willamette River via the Marion Street and Center Street bridges. When the Methodist Mission moved to the area, they called the new establishment Chemeketa, although it was widely known as the Mill. When the Oregon Institute was established, the community known as the Institute. When the Institute was dissolved, the decided to lay out a townsite on the Institute lands. The Reverend David Leslie, President of the towns Trustees, also wanted a Biblical name, or, the town may be named after Salem, Massachusetts, where Leslie was educated. There were many names suggested, and even after the change to Salem, some people, such as Asahel Bush, believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa. The Vern Miller Civic Center, which houses the city offices and it is estimated that the Willamette Valley area has been inhabited for over 10,000 years. The Kalapuya peoples would gather on the plateau east and south of the current downtown area in the winter and they fished and harvested in the streams and fields of the area. One staple of life was the root, and periodically the Kalapuya would set fires that would clear. In the early 1850s, the Kalapuya, along with the native peoples west of the Cascade Mountains, were removed by the U. S. government through a combination of treaties. Most Kalapuya people were moved to the Grande Ronde Reservation somewhat to the west of Salem, with numbers ending up at Siletz Reservation

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The Oregonian
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The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U. S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4,1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation, the Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. The Oregonian received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The papers staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, chief among these pioneer community organizers seeking establishment of a Portland press were Col. W. W. Chapman and prominent local businessman Henry W. Corbett. There the pair met Thomas J. Dryers press was transported to Portland, each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide. Little attention was paid to current news events, with the bulk of the papers content devoted to political themes, a loud and bitter rivalry between the competing news organs ensued. Henry Pittock became the owner in 1861 as compensation for unpaid wages, pittocks goal was to focus more on news than the bully pulpit established by Dryer. From 1866 to 1872 Harvey W. Scott was the editor, Henry W. Corbett bought the paper from a cash-poor Pittock in October 1872 and placed William Lair Hill as editor. Scott, fired by Corbett for supporting Ben Holladays candidates, became editor of Holladays rival Bulletin newspaper, the paper went bankrupt around 1874, Holladay having lost $200,000 in the process. Corbett sold The Oregonian back to Pittock in 1877, marking a return of Scott to the editorial helm. A part-owner of the paper, Scott would remain as editor-in-chief until shortly before his death in 1910, in 1881, the first Sunday Oregonian was published. The paper became known as the voice of business-oriented Republicans, as evidenced by consistent endorsement of Republican candidates for president in every election before 1992. The new building was, the same as its predecessor, called the Oregonian Building and it contained about 100,000 square feet of floor space, including the basement but not the tower. The newspaper did not move again until 1948, the 1892 building was demolished in 1950. Following the death of Harvey Scott in 1910, the papers editor-in-chief was Edgar B, piper, who had previously been managing editor. Piper remained editor until his death in 1928, in 1922, The Morning Oregonian launched KGW, Oregons first commercial radio station. Five years later, KGW affiliated with NBC, the newspaper purchased a second station, KEX, in 1933, from NBC subsidiary Northwest Broadcasting Co

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Oregon Secretary of State
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The Secretary of State of Oregon, an elected constitutional officer within the executive branch of government of the U. S. state of Oregon, is first in line of succession to the Governor. The duties of office are, auditor of accounts, chief elections officer. Additionally, the Secretary of State serves on the Oregon State Land Board, following every United States Census, if the Oregon Legislative Assembly cannot come to agreement over changes to legislative redistricting, the duty falls to the Secretary of State. The current Secretary of State is Republican Dennis Richardson, who was administered the oath of office on December 30,2016, Archives Division maintains the official records of Oregon government, provides public access to them, and publishes the Oregon Blue Book and the Oregon Administrative Rules. Established in 1947, the division is located in the Cecil L. Edwards Archives Building in downtown Salem on the capitol mall, audits Division provides oversight of public spending. Corporation Division handles filings relating to law, including formation of corporations and other businesses and organizations. They are also in charge of operating the public system. These duties include working with the referendum, initiative, and recall process, executive Division oversees the other four divisions of the office. The Secretary of States office is located in the Oregon State Capitol in Salem

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Alma mater
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Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college. In modern usage, it is a school or university which an individual has attended, the phrase is variously translated as nourishing mother, nursing mother, or fostering mother, suggesting that a school provides intellectual nourishment to its students. Before its modern usage, Alma mater was a title in Latin for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele. The source of its current use is the motto, Alma Mater Studiorum, of the oldest university in continuous operation in the Western world and it is related to the term alumnus, denoting a university graduate, which literally means a nursling or one who is nourished. The phrase can also denote a song or hymn associated with a school, although alma was a common epithet for Ceres, Cybele, Venus, and other mother goddesses, it was not frequently used in conjunction with mater in classical Latin. Alma Redemptoris Mater is a well-known 11th century antiphon devoted to Mary, the earliest documented English use of the term to refer to a university is in 1600, when University of Cambridge printer John Legate began using an emblem for the universitys press. In English etymological reference works, the first university-related usage is often cited in 1710, many historic European universities have adopted Alma Mater as part of the Latin translation of their official name. The University of Bologna Latin name, Alma Mater Studiorum, refers to its status as the oldest continuously operating university in the world. At least one, the Alma Mater Europaea in Salzburg, Austria, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been called the Alma Mater of the Nation because of its ties to the founding of the United States. At Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ancient Roman world had many statues of the Alma Mater, some still extant. Modern sculptures are found in prominent locations on several American university campuses, outside the United States, there is an Alma Mater sculpture on the steps of the monumental entrance to the Universidad de La Habana, in Havana, Cuba. Media related to Alma mater at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of alma mater at Wiktionary Alma Mater Europaea website

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Hillsboro High School (Oregon)
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Hillsboro High School is a public high school in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States, and is the oldest high school in the Hillsboro School District. The current campus was built beginning in 1969, prior to this, the senior high school was located downtown on Lincoln Street at 6th Avenue where J. B. Thomas Middle School stood until 2009. That campus was built in 1928, currently 1,515 students attend the school in grades 9-12. The official school colors are Blue, White and Red and the mascot is the Spartan, the athletics and activities of the school compete as a 5A school in the Pacific Conference under the Oregon School Activities Association. Alumni include professional soccer player Tiffeny Milbrett, hall of fame coach Ad Rutschman, Hillsboro Highs most recent team state championship came in 2009 for Football. As of 2016, the rate was 79%. In September 1908, tenth grade was added to the Hillsboro school district, eleventh and twelfth grades were soon added, and in June 1911 the first students to complete four years of high school were graduated by Hillsboro. This class totaled five students, consisting of four girls and one boy, in September 1911, the school added manual training and domestic science courses to the curriculum. That same year, voters approved of a $50,000 bond measure to pay for constructing a school building. In 1913, the school graduated eight students, a gymnasium was built beginning in 1915. The school grew in size, with the 1920 graduating class totally 36 students, in 1929, a new high school building was completed, with additional buildings and the wings added in later years. Located near downtown Hillsboro, at NE Sixth Avenue and Lincoln Street, in 1970, the new senior high school campus opened on 48 acres on the south side of Hillsboro, with enrollment of the high school district reaching 3,621 students that year. Students complained that the new layout consisted of classrooms spread out over the campus instead of a single central building was a poor choice for Oregon’s rainy. The school has been remodeled several times since opening in 1969, the first time was around 1980, when some minor updates such as the covered walkways were added. During the summer of 1999 the school received further updates, after the expansion Hilhi had a total of 256,652 square feet of space spread out among eleven single-story buildings on campus. During the summer of 2008 the locker rooms were remodeled improving the lighting, showers, future plans include the replacement of aging HVAC units and controls by 2011. Teacher Don Domes won the Software Association of Oregon Foundations Oregon Technology Educator of Year in 2004, since 2006 the school has participated in the MIT-Lemelson InvenTeam program. The former campus near downtown was demolished in 2009, in the fall of 2015, the school will become the first in the district to implement a mariachi program into the curriculum

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Cornelius, Oregon
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Cornelius is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the population was 11,869 at the 2010 census. The city lies along Tualatin Valley Highway between Forest Grove to the west and Hillsboro to the east, Cornelius was incorporated in 1893 and is named for founder Thomas R. Cornelius. In 1845, Benjamin Cornelius immigrated to Oregon with his family, the Cornelius family settled on the Tualatin Plains, near what is now North Plains. The same year, Benjamin Q. Tucker and Solomon Emerick staked land claims, at that time, the area was called Free Orchards, there was no actual community, but the name referred to the orchards on the 107 acres of land. In 1871, Benjamin Corneliuss son Colonel Thomas R. Cornelius learned that Ben Holladay planned to extend the Oregon, the new railroad was approaching Free Orchards in 1871, and Cornelius saw an opportunity to benefit from the new railroad. He left his farm and built a new house, a warehouse, the warehouse and store were located right next to the railroad, and so became natural places for local farmers to trade and store their goods. Cornelius also built a creamery to process milk, and two sawmills to supply lumber for the growing community, in addition, he helped to build the first frame schoolhouse and the Methodist Church. In 1893, Free Orchards was incorporated and renamed Cornelius, to honor the man who spent many years helping build the community. Though Holladays plan to make Free Orchards into the county seat never materialized, Cornelius survives today as a town and, increasingly. The Cornelius Public Library was founded in 1912, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.01 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 11,869 people,3,339 households, the population density was 5,905.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 3,499 housing units at a density of 1,740.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 64. 0% White,1. 2% African American,1. 3% Native American,2. 2% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,27. 2% from other races, and 4. 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 50. 1% of the population,14. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.51 and the family size was 3.88. The median age in the city was 30.4 years. 32. 9% of residents were under the age of 18,9. 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24,30. 6% were from 25 to 44,20. 5% were from 45 to 64, and 6. 3% were 65 years of age or older

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Carpetbagger
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In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War, during the Reconstruction era. Many white Southerners denounced them fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South, sixty men from the North, including educated free people of color and slaves who had escaped to the North and returned South after the war, were elected as Republicans to Congress. The majority of Republican governors in the South during Reconstruction were from the North, most carpetbaggers probably combine the desire for personal gain with a commitment to taking part in an effort to substitute the civilization of freedom for that of slavery. Carpetbaggers generally supported measures aimed at democratizing and modernizing the South – civil rights legislation, aid to economic development, Carpetbagger was used by Southerners as a pejorative term, referring to the carpet bags which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders, such individuals are seeking personal financial gain through such actions. Three groups comprised the Republican Party in the South after the Civil War, scalawags were white Southerners who supported the party, carpetbaggers were recent arrivals in the region from the North, and Freedmen were freed slaves. Although carpetbagger and scalawag were originally terms of opprobrium, in the early 21st century they are used in the scholarly literature to refer to these classes of people. Politically, the carpetbaggers were usually dominant, they comprised the majority of Republican governors, however, the Republican Party inside each state was increasingly torn between the more conservative scalawags on one side and the more Radical carpetbaggers with their black allies on the other. In most cases, the carpetbaggers won out, and many scalawags moved into the conservative or Democratic opposition, most of the 430 Republican newspapers in the South were edited by scalawags—20 percent were edited by carpetbaggers. White businessmen generally boycotted Republican papers, which survived through government patronage, beginning in 1862, Northern abolitionists moved to areas in the South that had fallen under Union control. Schoolteachers and religious went to the South to teach the freedmen. The bureau established schools in areas of the South for the purpose of educating the mostly illiterate black. During the time most blacks were enslaved, many were prohibited from being educated, Southern states had no public school systems, and upper-class white Southerners either sent their children to private schools or hired private tutors. After the war, hundreds of Northern white women moved South, while some Northerners went to the South with reformist impulses, many others went south to exploit the chaotic situation for personal gain. Although the stated purpose of these initiatives was to empower freedmen politically and economically and they became wealthy landowners, hiring freedmen and white Southerners to do the labor through the development of sharecropping. Within a year of Andrew Johnsons presidency, most of what was left of the Souths white elite had been restored to power, Men who had avoided bankruptcy regained their plantations and re-established businesses. Carpetbaggers also established banks and retail businesses, issuing monies and goods under high-interest loan programs, Foner notes that joined with the quest for profit, however, was a reforming spirit, a vision of themselves as agents of sectional reconciliation and the Souths economic regeneration. Carpetbaggers tended to be educated and middle class in origin

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Oregon Legislative Assembly
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The Oregon Legislative Assembly is the state legislature for the U. S. state of Oregon. There are no limits for either house in the Legislative Assembly. Each Senate district is composed of exactly two House districts, Senate District 1 contains House Districts 1 and 2, SD2 contains HD3 and HD4, and so on. The legislature is termed as a citizens assembly Since 1885, its regular sessions occurred in odd-numbered years, effective 2012, the legislature moved into an annual session, with the even-numbered years having a month-long session in February. Bills may be introduced in house, and must flow through a committee before being voted upon. Bills calling for increased revenue must be introduced in the House of Representatives, a legislative resolution referred to voters in the Nov.2010 general election amended the states constitution and changed the schedule of regular sessions from bi-annual to annual. Senate Joint Resolution 41 was voted on as state Ballot Measure 71, the changes took effect with the 2011 session. The first 35 regular sessions lasted 50 days or less, since 1949 no annual session was shorter than 100 days. The longest session was the 72nd regular session, at 227 days, more recent sessions ended in June or July. In either case, special sessions are permitted only in the event of an emergency, voters narrowly defeated a constitutional amendment in 1990 that would have established annual sessions. In 1982 a special session lasted 37 days, and the called the assembly into special session five times in 2002. The 2006 special session was the shortest in Oregons history, five pieces of legislation were passed in only six hours, the legislative body may also call itself into special session in the event of an emergency, although it has never done so. When the legislature is not in session, legislators serve on interim committees, the legislatures regular sessions were every two years until 2009. The push for annual sessions dates back to at least 1981, when a poll of legislators found that two-thirds favored a shift to annual sessions. com

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Oregon House of Representatives
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The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, the House meets at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Members of the House serve two-year terms without term limits, in 2002, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down the decade-old law, Oregon Ballot Measure 3, that had restricted State Representatives to 3 terms on procedural grounds. In the current legislative session, Democrat Tina Kotek from Portland serves as Speaker, after losing several seats in the 2010 elections, resulting in a split control between both parties for one legislative term, Democrats regained their majority in the 2012 elections. Meanwhile, the Oregon State Senate has been under continuous Democratic control since 2005